DJ Mahmut and Murat G
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DJ Mahmut & Murat G is a Turkish
hip hop duo from Frankfurt
, Germany
. Murat G raps in German
and Turkish
; and DJ Mahmut uses music from east and west. The group was founded in the early nineties. They also established their own label Looptown together with Volkan T., on which they first put out the Turkish-German rap compilation "Looptown presents Turkish Hip Hop" (1994) which was followed by their solo album "Garip Dünya" (1997).
DJ Mahmut has also performed in many high class clubs in his home country. He is a member of Statik, a group he established together with Istanbul's Turbo, and a German jazz
/funk
group named Mardi Gras BB.
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Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
hip hop duo from Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Murat G raps in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
; and DJ Mahmut uses music from east and west. The group was founded in the early nineties. They also established their own label Looptown together with Volkan T., on which they first put out the Turkish-German rap compilation "Looptown presents Turkish Hip Hop" (1994) which was followed by their solo album "Garip Dünya" (1997).
DJ Mahmut has also performed in many high class clubs in his home country. He is a member of Statik, a group he established together with Istanbul's Turbo, and a German jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
/funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
group named Mardi Gras BB.
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